When you have ingredients such as fresh crunchy chicory sweet sun-ripened cherry tomatoes & juicy ripe peaches a simple approach to cooking is all you need. Spending hours over lengthy preparations only disguises the natural fresh flavour of the food. In The Contented Cook" Xanthe Clay pares back all the effort & the fuss to show you how simplicity is key; both saving you time & allowing the quality of your ingredients to shine through. The simple philosophy embraces every seasonal glut & windfall of the year & rises to every occasion. A one-pot dish of Pork Flageolets & Star Anise is perfect family food for a weekday evening & Duck Breasts with Sweet Potato & Parsnip Crisps takes all the stress out of entertaining for a relaxed kitchen supper with friends. With recipes arranged according to seasonal ingredients & with sections on Spring Baking A Summer Buffet Party An Autumn Mezze & Winter Canapes this book capitalises on natures bounty to provide simple & delicious solutions at every turn." ...

Dementia is a little understood & currently incurable illness but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia"
- by clinical psychologist & bestselling author Oliver James
- outlines a groundbreaking & practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer & carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life throughout every stage of the illness. A person with dementia will experience random & increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events. Feelings however remain intact as do memories of past events & both can be used in a special way to substitute for more recent information that has been lost. The SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) outlined in this book works by creating links between past memories & the routine activities of daily life in the present. Drawing on real-life examples & user-friendly tried-&-tested methods " Contented Dementia" provides essential information & guidance for carers relatives & professionals."

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A Contented House with Twins unites the UKs leading baby expert Gina Ford & the highly regarded television presenter Alice Beer a mother of twin girls. Discovering you are expecting twins is both an exciting & a thoroughly terrifying prospect. Within weeks of the arrival of her beautiful daughters Alice found that she was screaming out for a routine & craving the knowledge of mothers who had been through it with two. This book is the result of those cries. Alices front-line experience of coping with twins is combined with Ginas highly successful parenting advice & for the first time her groundbreaking routines specially adapted for twins. Together they tackle the practical & emotional aspects of parenting two babies including:
- what you can expect in a multiple pregnancy
- how to feed two at once
- what to do when they each want a different story or both want a hug
- how to cope with everyday practicalities: shopping bathtime & much more. Alices humorous insights & Ginas essential advice tips support & successful routines will guarantee that parents enjoy their twins & get their lives back.



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As a new bishop Robert Atwell responded to a direct challenge from older church members who usually make up the biggest majority in any congregation. Why they asked was there always so much for the young; what was there for them? This book grew out of his response. A series of talks he gave on the spirituality of growing older & the gifts that wait to be discovered generated an unprecedented response not only throughout the diocese but on blogs & websites around the world. 60 really is the new 40 for increasing numbers of people. The retired are a huge consumer category increasingly recognised by marketing gurus. They may have disposable income time on their hands & the leisure of choice
- but wisdom humour & honesty are essential for these transitional decades too & this short book offers all three in plenty. The author's background in Benedictine life with its profound understanding of what makes for a balanced & rich life flavours a book of timeless value
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Weaning your baby on to solid foods is one of the most important milestones during the early months of parenthood & Gina's expert advice on weaning makes a baby's transition from milk to solid foods as straightforward as possible. Successful weaning establishes a pattern of healthy eating in babies avoiding the pitfalls of fussy eaters restricted to a narrow diet. In this revised edition of The Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning Gina

Includes:: the latest recommendations regarding breast-feeding & the introduction of solid food from the World Health Organisation & the UK Department of Health. She aims to take the worry out of weaning guiding parents step-by-step through the process & shares the insight & expertise gained from personally helping to care for over 300 babies & advising thousands more parents via her consultation service & website. Included in this revised edition:
- The best time of day to introduce the first solid food
- Which foods to introduce & at what age
- Getting the balance of milk feeds & solids right
- How to eliminate night feeds once solids are introduced
- The importance of introducing finger foods at the right age
- Extended parent-friendly feeding plans to take parents step-by-step through the different stages
- Newly developed rotating meal planners for older children up to the end of the first year
- Brand new questions & answers giving the most up-to-date advice to parents. The Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning is the definitive guide to ensuring babies eat well now & as they grow up & is as relevant & helpful to those parents who have not previously followed Gina's routines.









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The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases narrow aisles & spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain & his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because for just one night this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest a contest in which Swain must compete whether he likes it or not. The rules of the challenge are simple: seven contestants will enter but only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. The stakes are high the odds are brutal. He can choose to run to hide or to fight
- but if he wants to live he needs to win. For in this particular contest unless you leave as victor you do not leave at all.
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Photographys great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary
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They stuck their coaches on ride-on ride off ferries whisked through France & Italy moaning about garlic & rudeness then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours Many people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th century heyday but someone had to do it first & Thomas Coryate author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing CRUDITIES was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England & thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryates early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban & finally being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. & his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures? A clapped-out pink Rolls Royce of course. ...

In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche Freud & Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies rather than as expressions of underlying ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture acutely aware of its own historical contingency would fuse the private individual freedom of the ironic philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights & sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rortys status as a uniquely subtle theorist whose writing will prove absorbing to academic & nonacademic readers alike. ...

Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released to users is often a painful risky & time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles & technical practices that enable rapid incremental delivery of high quality valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build deployment & testing process & enhanced collaboration between developers testers & operations delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours- sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble & David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid reliable low-risk delivery process. Next they introduce the deployment pipeline " an automated process for managing all changes from check-in to release. Finally they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery from infrastructure data & configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques including automated infrastructure management & data migration & the use of virtualization. For each they review key issues identify best practices & demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage

Includes:: * Automating all facets of building integrating testing & deploying software * Implementing deployment pipelines at team & organizational levels * Improving collaboration between developers testers & operations * Developing features incrementally on large & distributed teams * Implementing an effective configuration management strategy * Automating acceptance testing from analysis to implementation * Testing capacity & other non-functional requirements * Implementing continuous deployment & zero-downtime releases * Managing infrastructure data components & dependencies * Navigating risk management compliance & auditing Whether you're a developer systems administrator tester or manager this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your business rapidly & reliably."

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